On Small Pox and Vaccination in the Island of Antigua
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The prevalence of small-pox at the present day in the parish of Marylebone is calculated to raise grave doubts in the minds of the public of the value of the discovery of the philanthropic Jenner ; or to impress them with the conviction that the Act for Compulsory Vaccination is shamefully ' neglected. To investigate the cause of this epidemic is no doubt one of the special objects of the Epidemiological Society, and it has occurred to me that the history of smallpox and vaccination in an island containing 86,000 inhabitants during the last fifty years may be deemed not unworthy of your attention. The limited field of observation has some advantages in such an investigation, inasmuch as it is more easy to trace effects to their causes than in a larger
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